Glasgow Baillieston (UK Parliament constituency)

Glasgow Baillieston
Former burgh constituency
for the House of Commons
Subdivisions of ScotlandGlasgow City council area
19972005
SeatsOne
Created fromGlasgow Shettleston
Glasgow Provan
Replaced byGlasgow East

Glasgow Baillieston was a burgh constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) using the first-past-the-post voting system.

Created for the 1997 general election, it took 54% of its voters from the previous Glasgow Shettleston constituency and 46% from the Glasgow Provan constituency. It included the areas of Easterhouse, Carmyle, Swinton, Baillieston, Garrowhill, Barlanark, Queenslie, Greenfield, and Garthamlock.[1]

In 1997, the addition of much of the Shettleston constituency increased the notional majority of the previous Provan MP, Jimmy Wray, to 14,165 (40.7%) over the SNP.

The seat was succeeded by Glasgow East in 2005.

  1. ^ Housing the key to city's eastern fringe, The Herald, 29 March 1997